Tony
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Wow,
What happened Bob. I was holding my breath waiting for your response. I figured you would B!@#$ch slap the next victim to ask that age old question “Why do I need a black burst generator.
You seem to be getting more mellow. Has the recent Hurricane thrown you off balance?
Say it ain’t so please.Tony Salgado
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Graeme,
One of life’s secret to avoiding back problems is maintaining flexability which yoga and stretching exercises can offer.
Such workouts are essential to our lifestyles as we age but work and family etc take away the time we could be spending on ourselves to maintain our bodies.
My suggestion don’t worry about working on that cross converter software and focus on what is needed to improve your body and life.
I for me would rather wait for your software abit longer while you heal your back.
Good luck,
Tony Salgado
Tony Salgado
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In order to sue and win both parties have to prove they have suffered damages.
In your case you are the party which has incurred and suffered damages as a result of not being compensated for your work.
In my opininon you have the right to tell the client they must take down the website you created because they have not paid you for such services to create it in the first place.
Take them to small claims or superior court and name all the principals of the company individually as well as the company itself as defendants in your lawsuit. When you win file a lien against any and all property or assets the individuals own.
You may have to wait awhile but you will receive a response and payment once they become aware they cannot refiance or sell their property because you have a legal lien against the property.
Basically they are screwed big time with a lien on their property.
Believe me small claims court judgements do work if you apply liens on the defendants.
Tony Salgado
Tony Salgado
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The difference between a full time employee and a freelancer is the employee is entitled to be paid for his time to train because he is employed full time. Based on my experience the freelancer on the other hand is a “at will hire” and it is their responsibility to “self train” themselves on the latest equipment, procedures and protocols.
This is one of the reasons a freelancer can charge such a high day rate given the extra time, and expenses they incurr to stay self employeed.
However if the client is hiring you as a consultant to test out the gear and provide feedback or professional expertise than you should charge them but if the end result is to benefit you with long term steady freelance work then you would be stupid to turn down the “self educational” opportunity. One major advantage would be to meet and learn from the in house engineering staff if any who can assist you with your instructional training. Should the client charge you to meet with their engineering staff?
If however you feel you are qualified to step into the facility without any training whatsoever and will not encounter any problems, workflow issues or a complete failure then you don’t need to make yourself available and just show up for day one of the job. Well unless you are God’s gift to mankind the most likely scenario is your first day will not go smooth and you may end up damaging your reputation as a “professional skilled freelancer” who takes jobs knowing they cannot operate the gear properly or to the client’s expectations or requirements.
You honestly owe it to yourself to be prepared at all times in advance so the client receives the full value for the amount he or she is paying you. If you want to be paid for every time you pick up a manual to teach yourself a new piece of equipment then consider taking a full time employee position at 1/8 of your day rate and all the internal political baggage you have to endure as a full or part time employee.
A freelancer has many liberties in that they can come and go as they please, select who they want work or not work for and what day rate they choose to compensate themselves.In my opinion if you don’t plan in advance you only plan to fail.
Preplanning well result in long term client growth, repeat business and a professional reputation that keeps you employeed time and time again.Keep in mind freelancers are only as good as their last job.
Tony Salgado
Tony Salgado
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PSF = progressive segmented frame. The important item to note here is the two halves of the frame were captured from one moment in time. Unlike interlace where the fields may contain two moments in time separated by 1/60 sec.
Tony Salgado
Tony Salgado
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Did you compare playback on a color critical CRT versus the Cinema display?
The varicam only records in 720 progressive not 1080p or 1080i.
Always capture in 720P do not cross convert to 1080i during capture.
On output depending on what the delivery requirements are you may need to cross convert.
During the editing process always stay in progressive mode.
Tony Salgado
Tony Salgado
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The benefits of capturing uncompressed would be see in complex color correction or keying sequences.
If you have a video card such as AJA kona or Kona 2 you can capture to the mac in firewire and later output via SDI to record to digi beta or other format.
Tony Salgado
Tony Salgado
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The only proper method to set up the gain and bias controls is with a gray scale step test pattern display.
You will need either a test pattern generator or other device to output the pattern.
In a pinch you could use bars and dial out all the chroma to get as close to a black and white image and then adjust gain and bias to null out the bars display.
In other words you do not want to have any color bias red, green, or blue.
Dial up the chroma on bars and then take a look at a neutral subject to see if you still have any color bias in the whites or lower to mid grays.
Tony Salgado
Tony Salgado
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By the end of next year the cost of entry into the higher end professional HD cameras will be dropping dramatically.
So the need to separate the prosumer equipment from the higher end professional gear is necessary to understand what the differences are in terms of image quality, durability and intended use.
A apple to apples comparision of anything is only possible if you first identify them as apples first not grapes or oranges.
Tony Salgado
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Blayne,
No I am not making this personal just offering another insight to your issues with your 130 vtr.
I may have not made it clear that AJA’s Kona 2 will indirectly do what you want to accomplish by allowing an HDSDI to dvcpro HD transcoding thereby taking advantage of the smaller dvcpro HD file size. No need to wish or hope for a HDSDI to firewire converter when all the Kona 2 is presently available. I do to foresee Panasonic adding a firewire port on any future varicam for use a playback capture to FCP as this in the long terms would be adverse for the camera tape transport.
If you want HD component analog outputs AJA along with other manufacturers make HD-SDI to HD analog converters.
I can’t be 75% of topic based on the issues which I address as they are are based on my personal experiences. Sorry you can’t relate to them. No I was never lecturing to you only offering professional in the field observations and methods to avoid major productions flaws and issues regarding tape playback.
Keep in mind that none of these flaws have ever happened to me or anyone else who maintains a constant level of professional security and protocol when dealing with camera masters.
If having a video assist person allows for a smoother and safer method for playback then I highly suggest client’s budget for that person and gear. Most Video Assist operators I work with capture to disk which allows for instant playback in addition to multicamera capture. The quality need not be dvcproHD as most director’s monitor are NTSC and production is not willing to waste more money for HD on set monitors when NTSC monitors are acceptable for content viewing only. This workflow is standard on 35mm film shoots as well so why should it be any different for a low budget HD shoot?
By the way if you really want to get rid of your 130 vtr and upgrade to the 1200A I can help you out. I’ll offer you $2000 for it.
Enuff said,
Tony Salgado